Graduation

Last weekend was graduation. I had never seen a Drake graduation before. Freshman year I bolted well before graduation and last year I was an RA and shutting down the dorm I lived in and couldn't go. So I was excited. Especially because I knew so many people graduating. I tend to get attached to the class ahead of me. Which sucks, by the way.

Anyway, i was excited to see everybody graduate. Drake has several different ceremonies. There's one for law school, one for pharmacy, one for undergrads, one for doctorate people... yeah, kind of a lot.

The first ceremony I went to was the pharmacy hooding ceremony. I don't really know why they're called "hoods." They aren't hoods. They're like... sashes or something that go on their graduation robes. It's hard to explain. I'll post a picture.


Here's what it is from the back. The inside, I think, has your school colors so Drake's are olive green and fuzzy on the outside, and blue and white and silky on the inside.


Ok, so the tan thing around his neck is the front of his hood. Depending on what you get your degree in, your hood is a different color. The pharmacy hoods are actually olive green.

So that's what a hood is. You're already more informed than I was a couple of months ago. And that's what the entire ceremony was. All 130+ pharmacy students receiving their fancy green hoods. The next day, they had the doctoral graduation ceremony where they actually received their degrees.

I also went to the undergraduate ceremony. As you can imagine, there are kind of... a lot of them. A heck of a lot more than 130. There were like 700 of them.

I have never seen anything so efficient in my life. They got all 700+ undergrads on and off the stage in two hours. My graduation ceremony in high school took that long and we graduated less than 400. I was SO impressed.

Drake graduation happens in the Knapp Center which is great for those who are prone to sunburning and hate sunscreen like me. But kind of sucky for those who love to take pictures... like me. It took me at least until the M's to figure out the right settings on my camera. But it all worked out. I got some nice pictures of a few friends graduating.

I kind of love graduations. I particularly love the processional and recessional. I love graduation music. It's just so awesome and there are the tympanis and all sorts of cool things. It's very exciting. I love it. But as much as I enjoyed myself, I couldn't help but freak out kind of a little bit. Firstly, of course, because I have some friends who are leaving. And also because that means I'm, like, a senior now.

How the HECK did that happen?

see? hoods.